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Yunqi Zhu (朱云奇)

3×3 · top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2017 · 2017ZHUY03

Yunqi Zhu (朱云奇) has been competing for 9 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 6.88, set at SJTU Winter Open 2018, puts him in the top 1.2% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 425th in China. Until November 2010, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 23 competitions since April 2017, he has put 541 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 68% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 12.71 in April 2017 to 6.88, a 46% improvement. Yunqi has entered 23 competitions, more competitions than 97% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 1.2% of 284,439 all-time
6.88
signature single · SJTU Winter Open 2018
541
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 68% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChina
3×36.888.74
top 1.2%425 / 28,153
3×3 one-handed12.1415.57
top 3.2%273 / 5,922
4×433.7637.28
top 5.6%561 / 5,926
2×22.414.30
top 8.0%1,173 / 15,796
Skewb4.566.24
top 14.9%918 / 5,004
5×51:18.021:22.16
top 17.6%848 / 2,816
Clock13.1915.74
top 40.4%969 / 1,843
3×3 Fewest Moves39 moves—
early days — 2 solves515 / 1,058
Pyraminx10.0714.43
top 53.5%5,586 / 10,224
7×75:41.88—
early days — 1 solve1,039 / 1,261

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Nanchang Spring 2017: 12.71China Championship 2017: 11.35Wuxi Open 2017: 11.76Nanchang Medium & Small Cubes 2018: 9.50Shenzhen Open 2018: 11.24China Championship 2018: 9.51Hangzhou Open 2018: 9.27Wuhu Open 2018: 8.78SJTU Winter Open 2018: 6.88Yancheng Spring 2019: 8.48China Championship 2019: 9.65Nanjing Autumn 2019: 8.37Nanchang Good Afternoon 2021: 8.07Shaoxing Afternoon 2021: 8.17Hangzhou Open PM 2021: 8.12Hefei Winter Open 2023: 8.73Hangzhou Spring 2024: 8.05Kunshan Open 2024: 7.07Xi'an Open 2024: 8.63Xuzhou Autumn 2024: 7.06Hangzhou Open 2024: 7.65Deqing Small & Special 2026: 7.976.8812.7115 Apr 201726 Apr 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-6 3×3 single — 1,376 people have one; it is 0.88 away.
  • A sub-12 3×3 one-handed single — 2,187 people have one; it is 0.14 away.

Targets move as he improves.